Every month, the Xero Developer ecosystem welcomes new certified apps to the Xero App Store.

Each app added to the Xero App Store gives Xero users new solutions to work smarter and take their business further.

We welcome the following apps to the Xero App Store this month:

XO Report

XO Report pulls live Xero data directly into Excel using custom formulas. Build profit and loss statements, balance sheets, trial balance reports, and data tables straight in your spreadsheet — with one-click refresh across multiple organisations.
Available regions: Everywhere

Portal 360

Portal 360 is an AI-powered practice management and client portal app for accounting firms and bookkeepers. Manage clients, communication, workflows, approvals, and integrations in one place to reduce admin and improve the client experience.
Available regions: AU

Claryx

Claryx is a financial planning and analysis platform for Xero finance teams. Plan, report, analyse, and consolidate on a single source of truth, with AI agents that build three-way budgets and board pack financials from your live Xero data. SOC 2 Type II certified.
Available regions: Everywhere

FourFourFive

FourFourFive helps accounting practices identify recurring spend patterns and import purchase orders into Xero quickly and safely, reducing manual data entry and improving accuracy for recurring transactions.
Available regions: UK

Medfin

Medfin is an AI-powered business intelligence platform for dental groups and clinics. It provides up-to-date analytics and metrics across practice management systems, accounting platforms like Xero, and CRM tools — giving healthcare businesses a clearer view of performance.
Available regions: UK

Remittance Go

Remittance Go solves the manual data entry bottleneck for Xero users who receive single bank payments covering multiple invoices. It extracts data from PDF remittance advice, matches payments to the correct invoices in Xero, and bundles them into a single batch payment ready for reconciliation.
Available regions: AU

Field Ascend

Field Ascend is an intuitive field service platform for scheduling jobs, managing engineers, quotes, invoices, assets, and customer communication in one place. It connects with Xero to help service businesses reduce admin and stay organised as they grow.
Available regions: Everywhere

Grow your app with Xero

Want to grow your business and join the Xero developer ecosystem? Learn more about what it means to be a Xero developer or app, and how we help support your success here.

Xero App Store: meet June’s apps was originally published in Xero Developer on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Here’s the short version of our June developer webinar: the key points from each section, with the full detail saved for the recording. We picked up last quarter’s question — is everyone a developer now? — talked through the latest technical updates and migration prep, and looked ahead to the Dev Days and Xerocons coming up.

If you couldn’t make it, you can watch the full recording on the Xero Developer YouTube channel.

Meet the panel

• Corey Leung: Developer Marketing Manager (Host)
• Breana McHugh: Senior API Technical Specialist
• Mae Nacario: Lead Product Manager
• Kirsten Spilg: Ecosystem Commercial & Special Projects Lead
• Millie Soutter: Senior Developer Marketing Manager
• Annie Terry: Head of Platform Marketing
• Regan Ashworth: Head of Ecosystem Governance

The fireside chat: the Rise of the Builders in the Ecosystem

Annie Terry and Regan Ashworth joined us to talk about what vibe coding means for builders. New app registrations are up fourfold since January, and a wider mix of people — small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers — is now building. More builders is good for everyone, but trust, security, and the professional engineer’s role still matter. When a project outgrows a non-technical builder, our development partners are there to take it further.

Technical deep dive

Mae ran through the key API updates:

• XPM 3.1 is here — JSON responses, UUIDs, field selection, and pagination. v3.0 retires 30 April 2027; Leads, Purchase Orders, and Suppliers go earlier, on 5 August 2026.
• Role-based permission changes land 29 June — Reporting permission for journals, and BankAccountAdmin to edit bank details. No code changes needed.
• A new “Connect App” permission rolls out — existing Standard and Advisor users inherit it automatically.
• Granular scopes — your app already has them; move across before 13 September 2027.
• New in the AI toolkit — a Xero-hosted remote MCP server, in closed beta with a soft launch expected in Q2. Explore the full Xero AI Toolkit.

Migration: a quick refresher

Apps created before 2 March are moving to usage billing by early July. Before you migrate: review your feature use, complete your certification or security assessment, and make sure your billing details are up to date (or you’ll be capped and moved to Starter). App Store listings need the Plus tier or above, and Starter is now capped at 1,000 calls per tenant per day.

Developer programs

Six ways to grow with Xero: optimise your listing, stay connected, get reviews, run your own campaigns, join the Growth Program, and the Referral Program. Plus, the Global App Awards close 10 July (winners announced 18 August), the Xero Developer Advisory Council is open for applications, and we’ve relaunched our Development Partners program with cleaner listings, better discovery, and a tiered model to come.

Events: London, Denver, and roadshows

• 🇬🇧 London — Xerocon 8–9 July at Olympia, plus a hackathon (4–5 July), an Ecosystem Payment Partners meetup (6 July), DevDay (7 July), and a 20th-anniversary-themed after-party. (London Xerocon exhibitor packages are now closed.)
• 🇺🇸 Denver — DevDay 18 August, Xerocon 19–20 August (exhibitor packages still open), and the after-party on 20 August.
• 🌏 Roadshows — New Zealand (October–November) and Asia (Malaysia and Singapore in October), with Australia and the UK to follow in 2027.

Where to find us

Catch us in person at our events, online at our quarterly webinars and weekly office hours, and across @XeroAPI on X and Instagram and Xero API on LinkedIn. Join the conversation on the Xero Developer Day Discord Server, explore developer.xero.com, share feedback on UserVoice, or reach us at api@xero.com.

See you at the next update!

Webinar recap: June 2026 developer update was originally published in Xero Developer on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

For the third episode of Is everyone a developer now?, we changed the rules. Our first two builds ran on Lovable, an all-in-one platform that handles hosting, databases, and deployment so you never have to think about them. This time, Regan and I wanted to see what happens when you trade that comfort for control. So we opened a terminal, moved to Claude Code, and brought in Henry, an engineer on Xero’s infrastructure team who specialises in the systems that automatically build, test, and ship software, to guide me through a tool that’s a real step up

But the platform switch isn’t the headline. This is: the whole app worked from a single prompt. On every build we’ve done so far, we’ve spent roughly as much time debugging as building. This time, Fable 5 took one well-prepared prompt and produced a working, Xero-connected app on the first go. For a series where things usually break before they work, that’s a genuine leap. Fable 5 has since been pulled, so this turned out to be the last thing we built with it.

The brief: a tracker that checks the books, not just the boxes

This build didn’t start with one of our ideas. It started with an App Partner who told us exactly what they wanted: a tracker for month-end close. For accountants and bookkeepers, closing the month is a checklist (reconcile the bank, post the journals, review the reports, confirm everything ties out) repeated across every client before they can move on. The request was simple. Give me one place to see where each client is in that process.

We could have built a static checklist in ten minutes. Instead we asked a better question: what if the tracker connected to Xero and read the books behind each item? You still tick things off, but now the tick box is backed by live data, not just someone’s memory that they did it. That’s the difference between a plain to-do list and something genuinely useful.

Why we traded Lovable’s convenience for Claude Code’s control

Lovable makes the hard decisions for you, and that’s its strength. You describe what you want, press publish, and the things a working app needs behind the scenes (hosting, source control, and the database) are all taken care of. Claude Code is the opposite trade. It can do everything a developer would do, which means you get fine-grained control over every stage, and you also have to make the decisions Lovable quietly makes on your behalf.

Worth saying up front: there’s more than one way into Claude Code. You can use it through a desktop app or the browser, much like any chat window, or through the terminal. We went with the terminal because it’s what Henry and Regan are comfortable with, but that’s a preference, not a requirement.

And for someone non-technical, the terminal is easily the most intimidating door to walk through. As Henry put it, it’s just a text version of your computer: the same things happening behind a graphical interface, with the pictures stripped away. That reframe helped. It’s less foreign once you realise nothing magic is going on; it’s the same machine, talking back in plain text.

The flow: most of the real work happened before the prompt

We didn’t open the terminal and start typing code. That single-prompt result wasn’t luck. It was the payoff for everything we did before hitting enter. The more effort you put into shaping the right prompt up front, the less time (and the fewer tokens) you burn fixing things later. A few minutes of planning saved us what would normally be an afternoon of debugging. Here’s how that groundwork broke down:

We scoped the idea in chat first. Before writing a single prompt, we used Claude to pressure-test what was even possible, mapping each checklist item to what the Xero API can actually return: profit and loss, the balance sheet, aged receivables and payables, GST and BAS, and manual journals. Knowing this upfront meant we built around what’s real, not what we wished existed.

We handed it the right scopes. Xero moved to new granular OAuth 2.0 scopes in June 2026. The scopes page is client-side rendered, so Claude couldn’t read it directly. But rather than guessing, it searched our developer docs and found the correct granular scopes anyway. No leftover broad scopes, which is exactly what you want from a brand-new app.

We planned before we built. In the terminal, we switched to Fable 5, which had launched only that morning (and has since been pulled), turned on plan mode, and let Claude lay out its approach before touching any code. The plan was thorough. It suggested a progress bar, status lights, and per-item notes we hadn’t even asked for. We reviewed it like product managers: describe the problem, sanity-check the approach, change anything wrong now rather than after it’s built.

We let it run. The build took about 15 minutes and was, almost unbelievably, a single prompt. The one thing that went wrong wasn’t the code. We’d connected to a Xero organisation with no data, because the demo company expires if you don’t use it. Once we spun up a fresh demo company, the tracker lit up: 12 unpaid invoices to chase before close, the balance sheet, the lot. Essentially a one-shot wonder.

The tech stack: three parts, not thirty

The point of vibe coding is that the stack is increasingly modular. For this build it really came down to three things:

• Claude Chat: where we shaped the idea before building, pressure-testing what the Xero API could do, refining the prompt, and looking up the right scopes.
• Claude Code, running Fable 5: where everything got built. We used its plan mode to think before writing, approved the approach, then let it make the rest of the calls, including choosing Node for the web app and writing every line of code.
• The Xero API: the engine. The interface and logic are generated, but the value comes from 20 years of accounting data structure underneath. Connecting to it meant the new granular OAuth 2.0 scopes for read-only access to the books, and keeping our credentials in a local file rather than pasting them into the model.

The honest part: working isn’t the same as shippable

Here’s where Claude Code earns its keep, and where it asks more of you. Right now, our tracker is exactly as secure as my laptop. Only I can reach it, which is fine for a prototype and a terrible idea to expose from a work machine. To make it usable by other people, you’re into real decisions: where to host it, where the code lives for source control, where to store data, and whether that data has to sit in a particular country. Lovable answers all of those for you with a publish button. With Claude Code, as Regan put it, we’re probably not even halfway.

That’s not a knock on either tool. It’s the trade. If you want a proof of concept in front of people fast, an all-in-one platform is brilliant. If you want control over every decision, Claude Code gives it to you, along with everything you now have to decide.

Henry’s advice for anyone feeling the overwhelm was the most useful thing in the episode: the volume of unfamiliar stuff doesn’t mean you’re not cut out for this. It’s just how development works. Learn one thing at a time. Ask an AI chat like Claude or Gemini to describe what’s happening rather than blindly accepting it. Do that consistently, and the learning compounds faster than you’d ever expect.

What’s next: from “runs on my machine” to published

We got a connected, working app in a single prompt, and we’re only partway to something other people could actually use. That gap is the interesting bit. In a future episode we want to keep going: source control, hosting, a database, security, and making it discoverable. The move from “runs on my machine” to “published and trusted” is its own build, and we’d like to show you exactly what it takes.

Fable 5 is gone for now, but that matters less than you’d think. As Henry pointed out, it isn’t far off Opus, and the way you build this way is fundamentally the same whichever model you use. The parts that last are the Xero API underneath and your own judgement about what’s worth building. Swap the model, keep the approach, and the next one will clear the bar Fable 5 set.

Watch the full episode on the Xero Developer YouTube channel to see the build in action.

Fable 5 built us a working Xero-integrated app from a single prompt, before it got pulled was originally published in Xero Developer on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In our last article, Jon Bell, Xero Developer’s Principal Product Designer, argued that the traditional labels of “designer” and “developer” are blurring, replaced by a new kind of creator he calls the “builder.” If the roles of design and engineering are blurring, what about the person who sits between them? The product manager.

We sat down with Ketan Kittur, Xero’s VP Product — Core Accounting, to find out.

Few people have had a front-row seat to as many platform shifts as Ketan has. He started his product career in the early days of mobile internet, helping build the infrastructure that powered data services on mobile phones at Openwave Systems, before moving to Nokia where he led the browser and developer platform as smartphones reshaped the industry. He then spent nearly eight years leading the developer platform at another major accounting software company, where he oversaw 10x growth in active developers and third-party app integrations, before taking on the platform and AI partnerships portfolio at Box. Now at Xero, he’s responsible for the core accounting platform and US products.

That kind of career, spanning mobile, SaaS, platform ecosystems, and now AI, means Ketan has seen this pattern before and knows what actually changes and what doesn’t. So we asked him: is the vibe coding shift actually different from what came before? And what does it mean for the Xero ecosystem?

Three prototypes, three real problems

When we asked Ketan how he’s been using AI tools, he didn’t give us a philosophical answer. He gave us a list.

Over the past several months, Ketan has built working prototypes using the Xero MCP server and Claude. These are internal proofs of concept, not finished products or blueprints for external developers to replicate. Their purpose is to test what’s possible, gather real customer feedback, and inform what gets built properly down the line. Each one was targeted at a real business problem.

The first was a livestock accounting tool for Australian agriculture, a capability Xero doesn’t currently offer. Ketan built a Claude chat interface that could handle the complexity of writing and posting to journals. “Livestock accounting is a capability we just don’t have,” he explains. The prototype let him explore what that could look like for customers before any engineering was involved.

The second was a prepayment and approval workflow tool, built and submitted as a hackathon entry. The problem it addressed is a familiar one for small business owners: they often can’t identify which invoices are prepayments, and end up manually creating repeating journals. The prototype automated that process end-to-end.

The third was the most ambitious: a proof of concept built for Xero’s enterprise pre-sales team. Xero currently supports only two tracking categories, which creates friction for larger businesses that need more. Ketan used the MCP and Claude layer to create additional tracking categories and write the output to a spreadsheet, with a clear path to a Postgres database if it went to production. The goal was to support pre-sales conversations, showing large enterprise prospects what a more flexible Xero could look like.

The thinking behind all three was the same: push the current limitations of the platform far enough that you can show a customer what’s possible, take that feedback, and then build a product that actually makes sense.

The thing engineering backlogs used to kill

Ketan has navigated major technology shifts throughout his career, and when we asked him whether this one is genuinely different, his answer was clear. It’s not just speed. It’s the nature of what’s possible.

“Previously, you had to get on an engineering backlog and test it,” he says. “It just took a long time. It curtailed creativity. It limited potential opportunities.”

The ability to prototype a concept quickly, put it in front of a real customer before writing a product specification, and gather real feedback changes the shape of the entire discovery process. Ketan describes it as “inspiring”: for internal teams, who can suddenly see what’s possible, and for customers, who can react to something tangible.

This doesn’t mean product managers are replacing engineers. Ketan is emphatic on that point. Once you’ve tested a concept, he says, you still need engineering for infrastructure, scalability, and production. That’s not going away. What’s changed is that the earlier stages of the process, forming a hypothesis, testing a concept, gathering customer feedback, can now happen without waiting.

Everyone gets a better toolkit. Not a replacement.

One of the recurring questions across this series has been what effect has AI had on traditional roles. Regan Ashworth argued that “everyone who wants to be a developer can be now.” Jon Bell suggested that “developer” and “designer” are being replaced by a single word: builder.

Ketan’s view is more measured, and it’s worth sitting with.

“I don’t want to take the position that design is going to go away or engineering is going to go away,” he says. “I think everyone now has a very powerful toolkit to hone their own craft to a level that was not possible previously.”

The distinction matters. It’s not that roles are merging so much as the tools available to each role have become far more powerful. A product manager with access to MCP and Claude can now validate an idea before it ever touches an engineering backlog. When it comes to scaling, securing, and shipping, engineering expertise remains the irreplaceable ingredient.

“We still need all these functions,” Ketan says. “They serve a purpose. They have a craft to them. What you can do now is work with each other to create and amplify an even better product than was previously possible.”

The best product managers have the best judgement

A more powerful toolkit, though, also raises a more important question, one that every article in this series has circled: what happens when someone with no engineering background builds something and tries to put it in front of real users?

Ketan doesn’t hedge here. As a product leader, he has a specific frame for it.

“I think some of the best product managers have the best judgment,” he says. “Judgment on how much to build, when to say no, how to build insights and look at signal versus noise.” In his view, that judgment is what defines great product leadership, and it’s exactly what’s being tested by the rise of vibe coding.

“Anyone who says, ‘I’ve done two or three vibe coding prototypes, I’m going to push that as a PR to production.’ That’s terrible judgment,” he says. “You don’t know what you don’t know.”

Security is the clearest example. When you’re not an expert in security protocols, Ketan argues, you can’t know what you’re missing. The answer isn’t to avoid building. It’s to be humble about what the prototype is and isn’t. “You have to work with experts in the space,” he says. “That’s how you build it the right way.”

This is the argument that separates the prototype from the product. Vibe coding has genuine power in the discovery phase: it lets you move fast, test ideas, and show customers what’s possible before a line of production code is written. But as Ketan puts it, the last 25–90% of the work, depending on the complexity of the app, still requires proper engineering. The judgment to know where that line is? That’s on the builder.

More quality apps, not just more apps

Looking at the broader ecosystem, Ketan sees a shift coming, but it’s not the one you might expect.

“Perhaps we may see more apps,” he says. “But I actually see it slightly differently. We will see more quality apps.”

He’s candid about the other side of that prediction. Alongside the quality, he expects to see a lot of what he calls “AI slop”: apps that aren’t well thought through, that work well as a prototype but don’t actually solve the underlying problem. Many of these will stall in that final stretch because their creators didn’t know what they didn’t know.

His recommendation isn’t to raise the barrier. It’s to change the framing. Rather than treating AI as the final word on development, he wants to see builders use it as a fast path to a real question. “Give developers patterns and ideas on how to test their concepts quickly,” he says. “Help them understand how to use AI in development, versus thinking about AI as the end-all for development. There’s a difference, and I think that will open up their minds.”

That’s ultimately the thread that runs through everything Ketan shared: prototyping is about asking better questions faster, not skipping the hard work. That distinction, knowing when the prototype has done its job, is what separates a good product instinct from a wasted sprint.

Ready to start building? Explore the Xero AI Toolkit, including the MCP Server, Agentic SDKs, and Prompt Library, to start prototyping with the Xero MCP Server, Agentic SDKs, and Prompt Library.

The future of the ecosystem: Good judgment in the age of vibe coding was originally published in Xero Developer on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Whether you’ve already started drafting your application for the Xero Global App Awards 2026 or you’re still pulling together your standout applications, there’s one unique category where the judges don’t get a say.

Instead, it is entirely in the hands of the people who know your product best: your users.

Welcome to the People’s Choice Award.

It’s all about your community

The People’s Choice Award celebrates the apps that have won the hearts of the Xero customers. It’s an incredible opportunity for advisors, accountants, bookkeepers, and small business owners to publicly recognise the tools that bring peace of mind, save them hours of manual work, and make a massive difference in their day-to-day operations.

Because our finalists are shortlisted based on receiving the highest number of unique nominations, you can’t win this one alone. The secret to success? Run a campaign through your own channels and ask your loyal network of users to back you.

We’ve built your promotion toolkit 📣

You don’t need to spend hours designing assets or sweating over copywriting from scratch. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to rally your community, so we’ve put together a plug-and-play 2026 Promotion Toolkit.

Inside, you’ll find everything you need to hit the ground running:

• a ready-to-send customer email template
• newsletter blurbs you can personalise
• pre-drafted social posts
• graphics and assets to help your app stand out

👉 Start your People’s Choice campaign here

Don’t forget the other global categories

While your customers are busy handling your People’s Choice nominations, don’t let your momentum stop there. You can still submit your own application for our core, expert-judged global categories to unlock that massive trust signal for Xero’s 4.4 million subscribers:

• Practice App of the Year: For apps that empower accounting and bookkeeping practices with meaningful, transformative impact.
• Small Business App of the Year: Celebrating the tools that help small businesses thrive and make operational life easier.
• Emerging App of the Year: Recognising early-stage apps displaying high potential and strong regional traction.
• Innovation App of the Year: Honouring bold, breakthrough ideas that fundamentally change how work gets done.
• Development Partner of the Year: Recognising the incredible builders and developers expanding the capabilities of the Xero platform.

👉 Submit your core category application here

To ensure a completely fair process, individuals can only submit one vote total. To prevent conflicts of interest, representatives, contractors, or employees of an app company cannot nominate their own app. Xero-owned apps and bank feeds are also excluded from eligibility.

The clock is ticking down to 10 July 2026. Now is the perfect time to polish your entry, download your toolkit, and get your community talking. We can’t wait to see who they choose!

Rally your community: The Xero People’s Choice Award 2026 is officially in your hands was originally published in Xero Developer on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

OCR can read an invoice. E-invoicing can deliver cleaner invoice data.

But neither answers the question that matters when a bill reaches Xero: how does this buyer want it coded?

That gap appears when one supplier invoice contains several accounting intents. The invoice describes what was bought. The buyer’s Xero setup defines how it should be treated.

A useful implementation pattern is to add a buyer-side accounting intent layer between extraction and the Xero API. In BillBjorn, this is the role of AutoCode: an AI matcher compares extracted invoice lines with buyer-defined category hints, then maps the selected category to Xero-ready outputs.

One invoice, three accounting intents

Imagine a cafe receives this supplier invoice:

The supplier sees one invoice. The buyer may want three different accounting outcomes:

The coding decision comes from the buyer’s Xero chart of accounts, tax setup, tracking categories, and preferences. Delivery may map to Freight for one buyer and COGS for another.

Where default coding stops working

A default account per supplier works when invoices are consistent.

Multi-account invoices are harder. A fixed amount split works only when the invoice is predictable: code $10.00 to Freight and the rest to Food. When the supplier charges $17.50, $22.00, or waives delivery, the rule no longer reflects the bill.

Percentage splits break when the invoice mix changes. Split-by-tax breaks when categories share the same tax treatment. Keyword lists break when descriptions drift.

A Food category should not need a long exact-match list for coffee beans, milk, bread, produce, catering, sandwiches, and supplier-specific variations. Mixed invoices need semantic interpretation inside buyer-defined constraints.

Structured invoice data is not enough

E-invoicing improves invoice exchange. It gives developers structured fields for supplier, buyer, invoice number, dates, line items, tax, and totals.

But structured data still does not resolve buyer-side accounting context. An e-invoice may say:

It does not know whether this buyer wants that amount coded to Freight, COGS, a reimbursable expense account, or a tracking category. Clean line-item data is the input. Accounting intent is still buyer-specific.

The constrained AI matching pattern

AutoCode rules define the buyer’s allowed accounting categories and provide an AI Matching Hint for each one:

The hint describes meaning, not an exhaustive keyword list. Because the AI matcher compares meaning rather than exact text, it can categorise new invoice descriptions. “Arabica beans”, “milk for coffee”, or “bread rolls” can still match Food if they fit the category hint.

A practical design is two-stage: extract invoice lines first, then match those lines against the buyer’s configured category buckets.

The AI matcher returns user defined categories, not accounting guesses:

That is safer than asking AI to invent final Xero coding in one step.

Keep the guardrails visible

The safe behaviour is not to guess. If a line such as “service charge” does not clearly belong to Food, Packaging, or Freight, keep it as an exception:

That creates review-by-exception instead of silent miscoding.

Map intent to Xero-ready lines

Once invoice lines are matched, the accounting layer maps each category to the customer’s Xero-connected setup: account code, tax type, tracking options, description, and amount.

This separates intent from implementation:

In BillBjorn, that separation keeps AI matching constrained by the buyer’s configured categories while still producing review-ready bill lines for Xero.

Takeaway

The next useful invoice automation layer is constrained interpretation: extracted invoice data, buyer-defined category hints, semantic matching, Xero-connected accounting defaults, and human review for exceptions.

The important design choice is to let AI classify within configured accounting boundaries, then let deterministic mapping produce the Xero API payload.

Invoice data tells you what happened. The buyer’s accounting setup tells you how it should be coded.

Guest blog: Adding an accounting intent layer between OCR and the Xero API was originally published in Xero Developer on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

You probably heard we’re bringing Xero Developer Days back in 2026, this time, in two cities. London on 7 July (alongside Xerocon London on 8–9 July) and Denver on 18 August (alongside Xerocon Denver on 19–20 August). We’re also running a hackathon in London in the lead-up to DevDay.

That’s a lot more happening, in a lot more places. So we’re giving the Xero Developer Discord server a refresh to match. You can join via the link here.

What’s changing

Last year’s Discord was built around a single event in Brisbane. This year, the same server now needs to support three: a hackathon, DevDay London, and DevDay Denver. We’ve reorganised the channels so you can find what you need without scrolling through chatter that doesn’t apply to you.

Here’s what’s new:

• A dedicated hackathon space with channels for technical support and general information
• Combined DevDay channels that cover both London and Denver, so you can participate whether you’re following along remotely or attending in person
• Forum-style channels for hackathon support and team formation, along with a show and tell, so information doesn’t get lost in the shuffle

Who the Discord server is for

If you’re attending any of the 2026 events in person, the Discord is where you’ll get logistics updates, meet other attendees beforehand, and access key information afterwards. If you can’t make it in person, the server is your way to follow along virtually, ask questions, and stay part of the conversation.

The server also stays active all year round meaning you don’t need to wait for an event to drop in, share what you’re building, or ask the team a question.

How to join the Discord Server

If you’re already in last year’s server, you don’t need to do anything, the new structure is already there waiting for you. Just head back in!

If you’re new, you can join via the link here. You’ll be asked a couple of questions and prompted to agree to our community guidelines before you’re let in. Once you’re through, introduce yourself, and have a look around.

We’ve got a big few months ahead and we’re looking forward to having you come along for the ride.

A bigger Discord for a bigger year: revamping the Xero Developer Day server was originally published in Xero Developer on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Every month, the Xero Developer ecosystem welcomes new certified apps to the Xero App Store.

Each app added to the Xero App Store gives Xero users new solutions to work smarter and take their business further.

We welcome the following apps to the Xero App Store this month:

LemonBooking

LemonBooking is a user-friendly platform for managing bookings, events, and websites for community venues of all sizes. Designed for community centres, village halls, and sports facilities, it connects with Xero to keep venue operations and finances in sync.
Available regions: Everywhere

brioHR

brioHR is an all-in-one HR and payroll platform trusted by 1,000+ teams across Asia. Built in Asia for Asia, it helps organisations simplify HR, drive performance and engagement, and scale confidently with automation, compliance, and local support.
Available regions: SG, MY

Spread

Spread automates accruals, prepayments, and revenue recognition in Xero. It removes the need for spreadsheets or manual journals, saving time and giving teams a faster month end.
Available regions: Everywhere

TallOrder

TallOrder connects with Xero to offer detailed and summary-level accounting sync. It helps businesses track sales, manage stock, and reduce errors with real-time updates — so you can focus on accurate accounting rather than manual data entry.
Available regions: ZA

Cookaborough

Cookaborough connects meal businesses to Xero, making it easy to sync financial data, automate reporting, and gain real-time operational insights. It also supports access to government rebate programmes such as Support at Home and NDIS.
Available regions: AU

Juice

Juice offers revolving credit up to £1,000,000 for UK SMEs. Every drawdown, repayment, and charge is automatically synced to a dedicated loan account in your Xero chart of accounts — no manual journals, no reconciliation required.
Available regions: UK

Aleph

Aleph is an AI-native financial planning and analysis platform. It automates reporting, consolidates multi-entity data, and models driver-based forecasts. Connect Xero in minutes and turn your accounting data into structured, strategic financial planning.
Available regions: Everywhere

Batchly

Batchly extends Xero’s bill payments with high-volume batch processing and built-in credit note allocation. Pay hundreds of bills in a single run, apply credits automatically, generate a bank file, and send remittances instantly — with a clear audit trail throughout.
Available regions: AU, NZ

Sterling

Sterling is an AI assistant accountant that takes over the repetitive 60% of finance work. It improves accuracy, speeds up the close process, and frees your team to focus on insights and business performance.
Available regions: AU, NZ, UK, US, IE, CA

Booqable

Booqable is rental software for small businesses and teams. Organise your inventory, schedule equipment, and accept online bookings — all connected to Xero for streamlined financial management.
Available regions: Everywhere

PR Claims

PR Claims helps New Zealand businesses recover money on every litre of off-road petrol. It connects to your Xero account, pulls fuel invoices automatically, lodges your quarterly MR70 with NZTA, and transfers the refund straight to your bank.
Available regions: NZ

PM Hub

PM Hub is a cloud-based practice management platform designed for accounting firms. It centralises client data, streamlines workflows, and automates routine tasks to help firms operate efficiently and focus on growth.
Available regions: AU, NZ

Grow your app with Xero

Want to grow your business and join the Xero developer ecosystem? Learn more about what it means to be a Xero developer or app, and how we help support your success here.

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Promoting a current offer or discount is one of the best ways to drive conversion on your app listing. When you highlight a deal, you’re not just providing value — you’re giving Xero customers a compelling reason to choose your solution today.

Here’s how to effectively surface your offers and make them shine in the Xero App Store (XAS).

Key best practices for your listing

To make sure your offer gets the attention it deserves, follow these structured guidelines:

• Lead with the offer: Include your discount or offer in the short description at the top of your app listing. This ensures the deal appears on your app card across the XAS — such as on the homepage or in category collections.

• Add detail where it counts: Use the bottom of your Overview or [App Name] + Xero sections to explain any specific details or eligibility requirements.
• Provide clear instructions: Explicitly tell users how to claim the deal. Ideally, your ‘Get this app’ button in the XAS should lead to a landing page where the promotion is applied automatically. If a promo code is required, list it clearly in your description.
• Maintain consistency: Ensure your own website’s sign-up flow reinforces the offer so users feel confident they’re receiving the right deal.
• Use markdown: Use bold text and bullets to clearly highlight your offer.

Important requirements

Before you hit update, keep these regional and legal requirements in mind:

• Global availability: Your offer must be available in every region where your app is listed in order to include it in your app listing. Because text changes to your listing apply to all regions, you cannot promote a region-specific discount.
• Transparency: Always include your terms and conditions (T&Cs) clearly within the user journey.
• Substantiate claims: Ensure any factual statements or statistics about your offer are accurate and can be proven.

Ready to update your listing?

Log in to the developer portal to refresh your short description and overview today. By making your offers easy to find and simple to claim, you’ll help more small businesses get started with your app.

• Read more details in the guide: Promoting App Partner offers or
• Learn more ways to Optimise your app listing.

Need help? Reach out to api@xero.com

Surfacing offers on the Xero App Store was originally published in Xero Developer on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The Xero Global App Awards 2026 are here to celebrate the apps making a real impact for businesses worldwide. Following the success of our 2025 program — which saw 38 finalists and 18 winners across eight regions — we’re back to celebrate the tools and the people behind them that make life better for small businesses.

This isn’t just about a ‘trophy’; it’s about a global trust signal that speaks to 4.4 million Xero subscribers.

Whether you are a long-standing Xero app hoping to rise to App of the Year, a rising star in the Emerging App category, or part of our brand-new Development Partner category, this guide will help you submit a stand-out application! To help you get there, we’ve pulled together practical tips, key reminders, and a ready-to-use toolkit to rally your customers.

Tips for a standout submission 💡

When crafting your entry, think about what makes your app truly valuable and memorable. A strong submission isn’t about writing the most — it’s about being clear, authentic, and focused.

Here are a few tips:

• Tailor your answers — Each category and region has unique judging criteria. Customise your responses so they speak directly to what’s being asked, follow the suggested prompts.
• Show real impact — Numbers, testimonials, and case studies go a long way. How has your app transformed workflows? Saved time? Unlocked new opportunities for customers? Share the proof.
• Highlight your differentiators — Share details on ‘What sets you apart?” It could be innovative features, a unique market fit, or an exceptional customer experience.
• Be clear and concise — Keep your points simple, relevant, and compelling.

Spotlight: The People’s Choice Award 🏆

This is perhaps the most exciting category because the power lies entirely in the hands of your customers. In 2025, we saw over 150+ apps receive votes from a highly engaged community.

Winning People’s Choice isn’t about the ‘perfect’ written submission — it’s about encouraging your community. The more you spread the word, the better your chances.

How to rally your community

The apps who succeed in People’s Choice are often the ones who bring their community along for the journey. Some ways to build momentum:

• Share your story on social media and tag Xero — celebrate your achievements and remind your customers to nominate.
• Add a call-to-action in your product newsletters and customer updates.
• Reach out to your most engaged customers or advocates directly — a personal note goes a long way.
• Encourage your team to spread the word across their own networks.
• Every nomination counts, so the earlier you start, the more momentum you can build.

Your 2026 promotion toolkit 📣

We’ve made it easy to get started with a ready-to-use toolkit designed to help you rally your customers:

• Customer email template you can personalise and send directly.
• Newsletter blurbs for quick inclusion in your regular comms.
• Pre-drafted social posts (LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook).
• Graphics and assets to make your posts eye-catching.

👉 Explore the 2026 toolkit here

Important reminders and key dates

To ensure your application is valid, please keep these eligibility requirements in mind:

1. Reviews: Your app must have at least 5 reviews on the Xero App Store.
2. Rating: You must maintain a 3-star rating or higher.
3. Availability: Your app must be currently listed and active on the Xero App Store.

🕒 The countdown is on:

• Applications open: 20 April 2026
• Applications close: Friday 10 July 2026
• Finalists announced: August

Don’t wait until the final week. Start gathering your metrics, reaching out for testimonials, and drafting your story today. This is your chance to join the ranks of past winners like G-Accon, Subsync, and Paidnice.

We can’t wait to see the incredible things you’ve been building.

Apply for the 2026 Xero Global App Awards

✨ Boost your chances: Tips for a standout 2026 Global App Awards entry ✨ was originally published in Xero Developer on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.